While the US version of the game will contain over the top violence and blood by the bucket loads, the PAL version of No More Heroes will contain nothing of the sort--not even a scrap of haemoglobin going by the video Games Radar has provided. Instead, much like the recently released Japanese version of the game, wanton acts of assassination upon your fellow enemies will bare what looks and sounds like masses of coins flying out of the recently deceased, as their bodies disintegrate into black ashed polygons.
At least such a form of censorship upholds Grasshopper's reputation as an oddball developer.
The reasoning for this latest example of videogame conservatism? Even though Grasshopper Interactive's Goichi Suda (aka Suda51) promised awhile back that the violence in No More Heroes would be gratuitous ("even more violent than Manhunt 2" were his words), this superficiality apparently now only applies to the lucky US version of the game. When asked if the British Board of Film Classification's refusal to rate the apparently mindlessly violent Manhunt 2 had anything to do with the visual change of heart, PAL publishers of No More Heroes, Rising Star Games, gave Games Radar UK a disheartening "maybe" response.
And no, before someone tries to point out that there's still a chance Australia will see the "uncut" version of No More Heroes due to Red Ant Enterprises publishing the game down under, allow us to clear up that misguided unlikely possibility. Unfortunately, Red Ant merely distributes games in Australia, with Rising Star Games being one of their overseas publishing partners. PAL brothers and sisters alike can therefore expect to pick up the same sanitised distribution of No More Heroes tentatively sometime in February 2008.
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